Religious Language and Asian American Hybridity (1st ed. 2016) (Asian Christianity in the Diaspora)

Synopsis

In this book, Julius-Kei Kato lets the theories and experiences of Asian American hybridity converse with and bear upon some aspects of Christian biblical and theological language. Hybridity has become a key feature of today’s globalized world and is, of course, a key concept in postcolonial thought. However, despite its crucial importance, hybridity is rarely used as a paradigm through which to analyze and evaluate the influential concepts and teachings that make up religious language. This book fills a lacuna by discussing what the concept of hybridity challenges and resists, what over-simplifications it has the power to complicate, and what forgotten or overlooked strands in religious tradition it endeavors to recover and reemphasize. Shifting seamlessly between biblical, theological, and modern, real-world case studies, Kato shows how hybridity permeates and can illuminate religious phenomena as lived and believed. The ultimate goal of the move toward an embrace of hybridity is a further dissolution of the thick wall separating ideas of "us" and "them." In this book, Kato suggests the possibility of a world in which what one typically considers the "other" is increasingly recognized within oneself.

Copyright:

2016

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Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781137582157

Related ISBNs:

9781137582140

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan US, New York

Date of Addition:

04/10/21

Copyrighted By:

the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA.

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Children's Books, Nonfiction, Teens, Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Social Studies, Language Arts, Sociology

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